top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-30

Cognitive load is what matters

https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load

1 year ago

Magic Lantern Is Back

https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=27315.0

1 year ago

Are we decentralized yet?

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

1 year ago

Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-tariff-business-price-impact-37b630c8

1 year ago

You Have to Feel It

https://mitchellh.com/writing/feel-it

1 year ago

Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderboard.html

1 year ago

Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font

https://www.osnews.com/story/143222/it-turns-out-nokias-legendary-font-makes-for-a-great-general-user-interface-font/

1 year ago

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/fbi_cyber_cop_salt_typhoon/

1 year ago

Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction

1 year ago

How to Give a Good Talk

https://blog.sigplan.org/2025/03/31/how-to-give-a-good-talk/

1 year ago

Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

https://andrewmarder.net/firefox/

1 year ago

Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/08/29/why-romania-excels-in-international-olympiads/

1 year ago

AI models need a virtual machine

https://blog.sigplan.org/2025/08/29/ai-models-need-a-virtual-machine/

1 year ago

Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

https://lwn.net/Articles/1035736/

1 year ago

LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords

https://landchad.net

1 year ago

New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

https://lafollette.wisc.edu/news/new-research-reveals-longevity-gains-slowing-life-expectancy-of-100-unlikely/

1 year ago

Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/is-it-possible-to-allow-sideloading-and-keep-users-safe/

1 year ago

From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms

https://vinithavn.medium.com/from-multi-head-to-latent-attention-the-evolution-of-attention-mechanisms-64e3c0505f24

1 year ago

TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/tpde-llvm-10-20x-faster-llvm-o0-back-end/86664

1 year ago

Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/condors-cuzco-risc-v-core-at-hot

1 year ago

Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history

https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/just-a-little-longer

1 year ago

Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073589

1 year ago

The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust

https://yekdeveloper.com/p/4-the-rise-of-hybrid-php

1 year ago

The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-sex-recession-the-share-of-americans-having-regular-sex-keeps-dropping

1 year ago

De minimis exemption ends

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/30/de-minimis-tax-canceled-orders-delays/

1 year ago

The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-default-trap-why-anthropics-data

1 year ago

A blog does not need “analytics”

https://www.thisdaysportion.com/posts/contra-analytics/

1 year ago

Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/affiliates-flock-to-soulless-scam-gambling-machine/

1 year ago

SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI

https://deepmind.google/science/synthid/

1 year ago

With AI Boom, Dell's Datacenter Biz Is Finally Bigger Than Its PC Biz

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/08/29/with-ai-boom-dells-datacenter-biz-is-finally-bigger-than-its-pc-biz/

1 year ago

Pentagon Docs: US Wants to "Suppress Dissenting Arguments" Using AI Propaganda

https://theintercept.com/2025/08/25/pentagon-military-ai-propaganda-influence/

1 year ago

University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

https://planning.e-psychometrics.com/test/icar60

1 year ago

New Huawei 96GB GPU

https://e.huawei.com/cn/products/computing/ascend/atlas-300i-duo

1 year ago

Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)

https://github.com/krig/LISP

1 year ago

Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/hurricanes/now-is-the-time-hurricane-category-6-could-be-introduced-under-new-storm-severity-scale

1 year ago

Meta and Yandex Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

https://localmess.github.io?new

1 year ago

Anduril's product engineering machine

https://joincolossus.com/article/the-amusement-park-for-engineers/

1 year ago

Triangle Grids (2022)

https://kvachev.com/blog/posts/triangular-grid/

1 year ago

Google Pixel 10 series review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-pixel-10-series-review-dont-call-it-an-android/

1 year ago

F-Stack – A network development kit with high performance based on DPDK

https://www.f-stack.org/

1 year ago

Enrollment at trade schools is expected to grow

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-cant-install-an-hvac-system-why-gen-z-is-flocking-to-jobs-in-the-trades-171735856.html

1 year ago

GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing

https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-25-107196/index.html

1 year ago

The fight against labeling long-term streaming rentals as "purchases" you "buy"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/i-like-plaintiffs-chances-prime-video-back-in-court-over-using-the-word-buy/

1 year ago

Inside the World of "The Great British Bake Off"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/inside-the-world-of-the-great-british-bake-off

1 year ago